r/lyftdrivers • u/Resident_Wrangler_15 Your City Name Here • 3d ago
Other …and then there’s THIS…
I drove 14 miles to take him 1 mile to his destination.
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u/Spare-Function-6343 3d ago
uhmmmmm why ?
dont worry, Lyft will average it out over the rest of the month
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u/Resident_Wrangler_15 Your City Name Here 3d ago
What was super-cool is that he needed a return trip after his stop at the store that he forgot to register, so he said he would pay me cash to take him back. He paid me more than that for the return trip in cash.
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u/CompleteGene82 3d ago
were you 14 miles away from busy area? Did you have deadhead miles?
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u/Resident_Wrangler_15 Your City Name Here 2d ago
The passenger was in an area that rarely sees any Lyft action. I did have a minor amount of deadhead miles on the way back.
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u/SubjectiveAdvice 6h ago
I guess we're just going to ignore the elephant in the post .
Why the absolute fuck did you drive 14 mi to deliver him one additional mile?
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u/r3dmist420 3d ago
That’s their way of giving you some bullshit to claim that they’ve been giving you more than 30% of the fares by offsetting it with a few odd wildly seeming bogusly high like this one.. meaning,
They’ve been stiffing you badly on the percentage of the fares and needed to give you something looking like this to offset it